Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:30:18 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: "8 Classic Games You Haven't Played (but should)" Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:30:16 -0500 Message-ID: <4oqppjp27bcsb929bihqg95lvj0paj0c6c@4ax.com> References: <83inpj94u8f2s4tatdcjbcsugskq4u9ip7@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 32 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-2MZsFi/FDyxc1MVxaxDDc3ru2zjKMKG8MAtycltoky9xQPuq2DdXzuTXuRtQ67K0OwCNubSfpBgdQet!QXlH/9bOT4jZJSlIt96KMiuJK9PGNnHg+Z/0jF8tCEwRQXeZZjuWOEcbGDwKOGwOoLkTd33h X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2532 On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:44:10 -0500, Mike S. wrote: >On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:25:51 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson > wrote: >>Can we both agree, though, that "Syndicate" was the better of both >>games? ;-) >Yes. :-) The gameplay of "Syndicate" was awesome, but what I really remember about it was its intro cinematic. A full-screen animation (back when full-screen anything was still rare), it was incredibly stylish and hinted at depths to the world that neither the manual nor the game itself lived up to. It could be launched with its own executable (intro.exe) which I would run again and again, just because it was _that_ cool. To quote an earlier poster in this thread: "The music was great to a younger me sitting in a dark cold bedroom staring at a 14" CRT with small speakers blasting out, the soundtrack, happy days" (And speaking of music and games from Bullfrog... "Lemmings", amirite? Such catchy remixes of old classics, all 'sung' through the squeal of a Soundblaster's OPL3 chip. I'm pretty sure that the game itself wouldn't have reached the heights of popularity it did with a different soundtrack.